People of the Wachusett : Greater New England in History and Memory, 1630-1860 / David P. Jaffee.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jaffee, David, author.

Contributor:

American Council of Learned Societies.

Series:

ACLS Humanities E-Book.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cities and towns--New England--History.

Cities and towns.

Land settlement--New England--History.

Land settlement.

Frontier and pioneer life.

Cities and towns--History--New England.

Land settlement--History--New England.

Frontier and pioneer life--History--New England.

New England--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.

New England.

New England--History--1775-1865.

New England--History, Local.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 306 p. ) ill., maps ;

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Nashaway became Lancaster, Wachusett became Princeton, and all of Nipmuck County became the county of Worcester. Town by town, New England grew-Watertown, Sudbury, Turkey Hills, Fitchburg, Westminster, Walpole-and with each new community the myth of America flourished. In People of the Wachusett the history of the New England town becomes the cultural history of America's first frontier. Integral to this history are the firsthand narratives of town founders and citizens, English, French, and Native American, whose accounts of trading and warring, relocating and putting down roots proved essential to the building of these communities. Town plans, local records, broadside ballads, vernacular house forms and furniture, festivals-all come into play in this innovative book, giving a rich picture of early Americans creating towns and crafting historical memory. Beginning with the Wachusett, in northern Worcester County, Massachusetts, David Jaffee traces the founding of towns through inland New England and Nova Scotia, from the mid-seventeenth century through the Revolutionary Era. His history of New England's settlement is one in which the replication of towns across the landscape is inextricable from the creation of a regional and national culture, with stories about colonization giving shape and meaning to New England life.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Illustrations and Tables

Acknowledgments

Introduction

PART I. TOWNN SETTLEMENT IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY

r. Indians, English, and Missionaries: The Plantation of Nashaway

2. "Indian-Fighters" and Town Founders: The Resettlement of the Wachusett, 1675-1725

PART II. TOWN SETTLEMENT IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY

3. Lancaster and Its Offspring: Serial Town Formation Enters the New Century

4. Narragansett No.2: Reproducing Families and Farms

PART III. THE CREATION OF GREATER NEW ENGLAND

5. New England Moves North: The South Shore of Nova Scotia

6. Town Founding and the Village Enlightenment: Walpole, New Hampshire

Epilogue: The Myth of Town Settlement

Notes

Bibliographical Essay

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-295) and index.

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ISBN:

9781501725821

1501725823

OCLC:

1083617625